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Responding to Burnout Signals on Your Team

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When this is useful

This reflection is for moments when you’re noticing signs of burnout on your team, but aren’t sure how to respond responsibly.

You may see fatigue, disengagement, irritability, or reduced capacity. You may also feel unsure where your responsibility begins and ends. This page is designed to help you think clearly about what you’re seeing, what’s driving it, and what kind of response is appropriate.

What this conversation helps clarify

This guided reflection can help you:

  • Distinguish individual burnout from systemic strain

  • Identify which conditions you influence directly and which you don’t

  • Avoid over-personalizing or over-medicalizing the issue

  • Clarify what support looks like without overstepping

  • Consider how fairness, control, and workload show up on your team

Burnout is rarely solved by care alone.
Understanding conditions matters.

Guided AI reflection

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I want you to act as a thoughtful, non-judgmental facilitator, not a coach, therapist, or problem-solver.

Help me reflect on burnout signals I’m noticing on my team.

Please help me explore:

  • What specific signals I’m seeing, and in whom

  • Whether these signals appear new, chronic, or situational

  • What pressures or constraints may be contributing

  • Where I have control, influence, or limited authority

  • How fairness, workload, and expectations are being experienced

Please:

  • Ask one question at a time

  • Avoid telling me what I should do unless I explicitly ask

  • Periodically summarize what you’re hearing and check for accuracy

  • Help me distinguish between empathy, responsibility, and accountability

Start by asking me what burnout looks like on my team right now.

How to use this reflection

  • ou don’t need to fix burnout here.

  • You can pause and return later.

  • You can stop if the reflection begins to feel overwhelming.

    This is a private thinking exercise, not a treatment plan or policy review. Its value is in helping you act proportionally and responsibly.

A closing note

Leaders often feel caught between caring deeply and having limited levers to pull. That tension is real.

If this reflection helps you respond with greater clarity about what is within your control and what is not, that clarity alone can prevent harm.